At that time, the city operated in the form of a bicameral meeting. The people's congress attended by the Ephesus people was held in the concert hall on the designated date every year. It was the place where the representatives of the Senate attended the meeting.↗ Therefore, the concert hall was mainly used for concerts and municipal councils. The concert hall was exported to the National Market and the Municipal Hall, and it was the temple of Prytaneion.

The building is in the administrative center and was once used as an administrative management, so it is also considered a municipal building. The temple was built in the 3rd century BC and was later converted into a Christian church. During the reign of Augustus, the city hall was built and a burning torch was placed in the temple to symbolize the eternal existence of the city's spirit.

It is said that the Holy Fire has been burning for hundreds of years. In order to prevent the Holy Fire from extinguishing, the priests named Currit looked for firewood everywhere. They dragged the firewood on the streets and everyone wanted to make way for them. Therefore, the main avenue in the city was called Currit Avenue. The reason why it was called the Temple is because this building was originally dedicated to the goddess Artemis.

Later, archaeologists dug out two stone sculptures of the goddess Artemis from the ruins, which were intact. These two stone sculptures are now the treasures of the Selchuk Museum. The temple of prytaneion Ephesus Ephesus Zhou Xiken was waiting for Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi in front of him. Along the way, he told Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi a long story for each building.

The feeling of walking on this ancient street is as if listening to a magnificent historical epic. Because the ancient city is preserved and fully told, the story and real scenes seem to have not been cut off, the ancient times have been brought closer, and each building tells people the stories of their past. Yunluo and Nalan Shuqi were unconsciously integrated into the glory of the ancient city.

Ephesus has long surpassed the general definition of the city, and people on this land have created a huge and elegant art treasure. The ancient city road Ephesus walked down the slope road from the temple of Prytaneion, and on the left is the Plaza of Domition and the Temple of the Temple. On both sides of the end of the road you will see reliefs of Hermes.

The western part of the square has not yet been excavated. The two ruins built with large pieces of limestone on the left are still unknown to the purpose of their use. Domitian Square Domitian Square Ephesus Domitian Square Ephesus Domitian Square to the right is the Manminus Monument. Manminus is the grandson of the Roman dictator Sura and an architect famous for building water bridges.

Historically, the Ephesians helped the neighboring Kingdom of Pontis resist the invasion of the Romans. After Pontis defeated Rome, he ordered the massacre of nearly 80,000 Romans in the city of Ephesus. To commemorate this tragic event, Manminus established this monument. The Manminus Monument to Ephesus Monument to Ephesus is a quadrangle building.

It is said that the prototype of the relief figures on it is Manminus' grandfather Sura and the other is his father Caius. The terrain is high here and it is a good place to overlook Curett Avenue. Friends who love photography should not miss it. There is a triangular stone tablet next to the domition square of Ephesus. This is a relief sculpture of Nike, the goddess of leap.

She held a garland in one hand and a candied date branch in the other, floating and flying. This is the favorite place for tourists to take pictures. Before the goddess of victory Ephesus really stepped onto Currit Avenue, she had to pass through this door. There are only two stone pillars carved with door gods left on this door, because both door gods were Hercules.

Therefore, this gate is called the Gate of Hercules. The significance of this gate is to defend the municipal government in front, and it is also a landmark, separating the municipal government from general public facilities and the houses of ordinary people. The gate of Curet Avenue Ephesus Curet Avenue is about 50 meters long and winds all the way to the Selesth Library.

In the 3rd century AD, street lights with exquisitely carved marble columns were already erected on both sides of the street. Whenever the lights came on, this Greek colonized port city was filled with merchant ships and bustling traffic, and a prosperous scene of singing and dancing. It was here that Roman General Anthony met the Queen of Egypt Cleopatra for the first time.

Curet Avenue Ephesus Curet Avenue concentrates the main buildings and artworks of Ephesus. Countless statues stand on both sides of the avenue, and countless fountains are decorated into exquisite handicrafts, leaving amazement and reverence for modern people. The magnificent temples on both sides of the road, and exquisitely carved floral patterns show people's yearning for beauty and pursuit.

Roadside sculptures Ephesus Ancient City Carving Ephesus This is the Tulanus Fountain located on the right side of the Curet Avenue. The fountain was built in 102-114 AD. It was built for King Tulanus (98-117 AD). It is a two-story column-shaped building, about 12 meters high, and the shape of the fountain in front is still clearly identifiable.

It is said that in the past, there were sculptures of kings erected on the waterways here, and in the niches of all sizes behind the pillars, there were sculptures of royal members, God of Baccarat, etc. There was a driveway in the middle of the Curet Avenue in Tulanus Fountain, and there were sidewalks on both sides of the eaves. The stone pillars on both sides of the road and the inscriptions left on the ruins.

It records the sacrificial activities carried out by the monks of Currit in Ephesus. Every spring, monks wear dresses and walk out of the temple, walk along the avenue to the end, and then go to the place where the goddess Artemis was born 7 kilometers away. The monks' mission is to reproduce the birth of the mother god Artemis in the form of drama.

Therefore, Curet Avenue is also part of the Holy Way. Ephesus is very hot, and Yunluo and Nalan Shiki have changed into clothes from late spring and early summer. This season when traveling to Turkey, you must prepare clothes from early winter to early summer. There is a row of boutique shops on the left of Curet Avenue Ephesus, and some of them have been excavated.

Zhou Xiken asked Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi to pay attention to the mosaics on the ground. More than 2,000 years ago, the Ephesus people used mosaics, and it was a mosaic floor. Did the shop Ephesus mosaic sidewalk see the mosaic that was being repaired? It was Zhou Xiken's favorite temple of Hadrian. Unfortunately, it was under repair and could not see the true face.

The Temple of Hadrian is the most beautiful building restored in Currit Avenue. It is named after the Emperor Hadrian (76 AD-138 AD). Hadrian became the Roman emperor in 117 AD. During his reign, it was the most prosperous era in Rome and the largest territory of the Roman Empire.

According to records, Emperor Hadrian visited Ephesus several times. During his visit in 128 AD, he allowed the construction of a temple for himself. For this reason, the Ephesians built this temple near the Church of Mary, which was only completed in 138 AD. It was also during Hadrian's period that Ephesus' architecture changed from Greek to Roman.

The Temple of Hadrian is being repaired in Ephesus. This is a restoration picture of the Temple of Hadrian. It is a typical Collins-style temple. The most worth seeing inside the temple is the sculpture. There are many carvings of mythical figures on the inner wall columns. One side is from the Greek era, and the other side is a figure painting of the Amazon Women's Kingdom. The statue on the front of the inner wall is the snake-haired banshee Medusa.

Taking its powerful qualities as the guardian of the temple, various characters are vivid. The restoration of Hadrian Temple Zhou Xiken asked Yun Luo and Nalan Shiqi to enter this small street from the Hadrian Temple. On the right of the Ephesus Street, the ancient city road is a public bath. The bath was built in the first century BC and was built very scientifically.

In order to take care of the needs of the bather, the bathhouse is divided into rooms with different water temperatures. The water is introduced into the indoor bathhouse through underground pipes, and the bathhouse is empty and easy to burn. These are four typical bathroom forms in the Roman period, with cold water, warm water and high temperature bathrooms, as well as a cloakroom.

Public Bathroom Ephesus Public Bathroom On the left side of Ephesus Street is the famous Ephesus public toilet, with only men's toilets and no women's toilets. It is said that this is the social place for men in ancient Ephesus. The first thing they do when they wake up in the morning was to come here, discuss current affairs, exchange information, and communicate feelings. If you are tired of shopping, come here to rest.

Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi asked Zhou Xiken, wouldn't it smell bad if he sat for so long? It was not elegant. Zhou Xiken said that there was a waterway below, and it wouldn't be too smelly if someone washed it at any time. Moreover, people at that time were wearing long robes and their entire squatting position was covered, just like sitting on a bench, not feeling bad. Looking at the cold stone slab, Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi said that the people of Ephesus were really not afraid of the cold.

Fortunately, Ephesus is located on the seaside, and the temperature here is much higher than Cappadocia, so this problem should not exist. Public toilets are outside the public toilets of the Ephesus. There is an unknown site, opposite the site is a slope residence. It is said that it is a residential area for the rich, but there are no complete buildings, only mosaics on the ground and wet murals on the walls.

Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi did not go up. The ruins of the ancient city left the small street, and Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi came to the end of Curett Avenue, which is the intersection of Curett Avenue and Marble Street. The picture below at the end of Curett Avenue is the Selesth Library, which is a landmark building in the ancient city of Ephesus.

The Sels Library was built in the 2nd century AD. At that time, an official from Rome succeeded his father Sels and became the governor of Ephesus. In memory of his father, he built this spectacular library on his father's tomb. The Sels Library is a two-story marble building, which was then known as the second largest library in Asia Minor.

There are 16 large stone pillars in front of the door, each of which is as thick as a hug for two people. The middle of the pillars is thick and thin on both sides, which looks wide from the perspective. The library has experienced earthquakes and fires and was completely restored by the Austrians from 1972 to 1978. Each stone piece was restored and built back to its original position. The cultural relics inside are preserved in the National Museum of Vienna, Austria.

The Selesth Library faces the east, allowing the reading room to make full use of the morning light. It is said that men in Ephesus liked to tell their wives to go to the library to read books. Later, it was discovered that the library had an underground passage that could lead to a building considered a brothel next to it, so many jokes related to this were heard.

Many men did not read books in the library, but went to brothels. There are four statues of goddesses on the front of the first floor of the Ephesus Library in Selthus Library, namely the goddess of wisdom, destiny, knowledge, and virtue. There were four sculptures on the second floor, but now they disappeared and their whereabouts were unknown.

The goddess of fate Ephesus, the goddess of wisdom Ephesus, is located on the marble street next to the library. It is said that it is a signpost and is related to the brothel. There is a finger pointing to the left next to the footprint. It means that it is a sign of recruiting prostitutes in ancient times. If you have money, you can move forward and talk to women.

Another way of saying it is that the footprint is adult-sized, meaning that only adults can enter. The road sign is next to the Ephesus Library. The south gate has three entrances, decorated with ivy and jagged edge decorations, and the wall is written in Latin monuments in bronze characters.

According to the inscription, in 3 BC, this gate was built by King Augustus, Queen Libya, his deceased son-in-law and princess Julia. The two slaves who announced their freedom were constructed in detail. The south gate of the commercial market, Ephesus, entered the gate, and faced with a row of columns. The circumference of the commercial square is 112 meters, and surrounded by columns.

The Ephesus Square in the commercial market is very open. The early residential ruins of the commercial market and dated back to the 7th century BC have been excavated to the west. The ruins we see now are sites from the 1st century AD. The picture below of the private market Ephesus is a restoration diagram of the column buildings, which is very imposing and can be seen in the ancient glory.

Restoration of the Commercial Plaza. Behind the columns of Ephesus are vaulted shops with equal sizes and side by side. This layout allows you to imagine the prosperity here at that time. From the entrance of the commercial Plaza, Ephesus, the columns of Ephesus, began to enter the gate, and the children and parents and their family of three were always in the same direction as Yun Luo and Nalan Shiqi's visit.

This child is not afraid of strangers, and always smiles at Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi. It is so cute. The little boy playing in the square, Ephesus Commercial Plaza, both in the north and south, has two-story structures, and has set up gates for the port on the north and west. After hundreds of years of use, many sculpture bases and monuments showing glory were left behind.

The inscription records important documents such as the construction period, cultural activities, urban management, religion and social life. The commercial squares Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi now enter the Marble Street. The Marble Street is a main avenue in Ephesus, about 400 meters long, and the part from Hadrian's Gate to the Grand Theater is paved with white marble.

Therefore, it is called Marble Street. In the past, Marble Street was a lively market. Now both sides of the street are full of broken stone pillars, and only from the scale of the columns on both sides, imagine the glory of this place in ancient times. At the end of the marble road Ephesus Marble Street is the Grand Theater, which is built on the slope. It is one of the largest theaters in the ancient world.

It can accommodate 25,000 spectators. In ancient times, various festivals and "people's meetings". People from Ephesus came to the Grand Theater to participate in the event. The band performed on a horseshoe-shaped platform in the middle. It is said that the sound effect of playing classical music is excellent, but if you play modern pop music, the effect will be bad.

This proves that the clever ancient Ephesusians designed this theater based on the music of the time in order to achieve the best results. The Coliseum Ephesus Coliseum was built in the 3rd century BC and was built in the 2nd century AD. It took about 500 years, so it mixes two architectural styles of Greece and Roman.

The theater is Greek-style, semicircular. The auditorium gradually rises along the mountain. The auditorium is divided into three levels and has two stairs up the auditorium. There is a row of columns behind the uppermost auditorium, which can serve as a reinforcement of the theater and decorate the theater. The arched circular gate of the theater is obviously in the Roman architectural style.

The Grand Theater Ephesus follows the road in front of the Grand Theater and heads north along the hillside, and you can go to the sports field and stadium of ancient Ephesus. The unexplored monument has not yet begun. The unexplored monument of Ephesus is the Harbour Avenue, which leads to the port at that time. Now the Sea of ​​Love is far away from the ancient city of Ephesus, and the harbor no longer exists.

There are only beautiful memories of the locals. Harbour Avenue is the widest avenue in Ephesus. Now there are very few buildings left on both sides of the road, only broken stone pillars and stones. It is said that this was a bustling commercial street back then, with shops, theaters and gymnasiums on both sides of the avenue.

The people of Ephesus loved sports. There are currently three gymnasiums found, including stadiums and sports fields, with different functions. Ephesus exit from the Ephesus Grand Theater from the Harbour Avenue, Ephesus, and view the panoramic view of the Grand Theater, which is magnificent and spectacular. Due to the high terrain of the Grand Theater, Yun Luo and Nalan Shiqi can still clearly see the Grand Theater on the road.

From Harbour Avenue to view the Grand Theater Ephesus, this is the greenway that leaves the Ephesus Scenic Area. Yun Luo and Nalan Shiqi were talking while walking. When they reached the exit, they suddenly heard the familiar local accent calling Yun Luo and Nalan Shiqi. It turned out that they were a self-guided fellow villager, and they were very happy to hear the local accent.

The person who wears yellow clothes at the scenic spot is a fellow villager who travels alone to Israel and Turkey. She has been out for a month. The sisters admire her courage and courage, so how many difficulties have to be overcome. Yunluo especially admires her. The camera in her hand is very big and heavy. Yunluo can't even carry an ordinary SLR machine, so he can only take a card machine.

Self-guided tours are really a game for brave people and physical people! The fellow villager Zhou Xiken of Ephesus was in a hurry today, but he left Ephesus. It was still early, so he advanced the leather goods store he would go to tomorrow. This is also good, because there are too many attractions in Istanbul, Yunluo has always been worried that there is not enough time. The sales of this leather goods store is unique.
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